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The other day I was thinking about all the programs that the Council currently maintains and I wondered if it was possible to see how much money the Council actually brings in every year. I mean, every year seems to see more programs with more fee collection opportunities for the Council, but had anyone ever added all that up?

Money, by 401K

So I got to researching. I started with the usual sources: LexisNexis, Hoovers, Dun & Bradstreet, and found very little information. Only one report by Dun & Bradstreet, who is notoriously inaccurate when dealing with privately held firms, of around $3.7M in 2016. Then I headed over to the IRS’s website to see if the Council had ever filed a form 990. This is a form filed by firms with Tax Exempt status, and can include things like revenues. Came up with nothing, which means that the Council is a for profit firm.

So I embarked on a journey to figure out what I could deduct by using information publicly available on the Council’s website. Turns out, the annual number is a lot more than $3.7M.